Joseph
is the author of a scholarly book, Configurations
of Faust (1980), a poetry collection, Making My Name (1990), two chapbooks, Apocalypse Clam (2006) and On Account of Darkness(2011), both published by Finishing Line Press, and is co-editor, with
Eduardo González-Viaña, of a bilingual volume
of poems by Peruvian and Oregonian poets entitled O
Poetry! ¡Oh Poesía! Poems of Oregon and Peru (1997).
He is a former Chair and currently a member of the Board of
Trustees for the Friends of William Stafford. See the interests page
for more information. He
holds degrees from Oglethorpe University (B.A.), the University
of California at Santa Barbara (M.A.), and Washington State
University (Ph.D.). Now retired, he is Professor Emeritus of
English at Western Oregon University. Honors and awards for
teaching and scholarship include two Fulbright Fellowships--lecturing
in Egypt, 1983-84, and in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa,
1989-90. Now in their late 70s, Joe and his cat, Tramp, live in Portland, Oregon.

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